Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constructive and destructive principles of sexuality, are as old as American storytelling. In Love and Death in the American Novel, Leslie Fiedler has traced them through historical American fiction, but to a movie audience they are especially familiar as the conventional alternatives offered to the male protagonists of countless Hollywood features. In Sally's Hounds, Edlestein conducts a running personal argument with a number of cinematic conventions, ranging from accepted cutting technique to standards of careful plotting, and he does not exempt these feminine types from scrutiny. The first important triumph of the film is the skill with which...
...film makers is being expended largely on "adult" themes-which means, of course, lots of sex. But more than nudity and frankness is involved. A proliferation of new techniques-multiscreen, three-dimensional, the 360° projection of Expo 67-are already beginning to find their way into Hollywood productions. The Boston Strangler is being shot with multiple images. One scene shows at the left an elderly woman watching TV; at bottom center, a detective interviews a witness; on the right, the strangler drives his car slowly through the streets to the elderly woman's house. Mary Ellen Bute...
...well that he was invited back as Sir Basil in two succeeding Tarzan segments-and then it seemed as if every TV producer in Hollywood was after this new property. He appeared in guest shots on Daniel Boone, Red Skelton and Pat Boone's syndicated interview show. In high style, he played the heavy last week...
Producer David Merrick thought so -to the tune of an $800,000 investment, plus Hollywood's Vincente Minnelli to direct, plus a buildup for curvaceous Star Marisa Mell that included coverage in Vogue and McCall's. But Merrick was wrong. After a ludicrous Washington preview at which everything from the scenery to the sound system came apart at the seams, Mata Hari opened to lethal reviews...
...ought to be a pretty good business to be in." So in New Castle, Pa., in 1906, the sons of a Polish immigrant butcher bought themselves a nickelodeon theater and by 1917 were cranking out their own silent films, soon moved to New York and then to Hollywood, where the saga went on until 1956, when they sold their controlling interests in Warner Bros, for $22 million...